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Monthly Archives: October 2006

Ever since formatting my laptop (Dell Lattitude D820), I’ve been trying to get my Bluetooth working. Although XP SP2 has bluetooth support built in, it’s pretty lame and doesn’t support the headset profile, which means I can’t use my bluetooth Continue reading →

Since abandoning my Samsung t809 and returning to the Sony Ericsson p910i, I’ve been experiencing a strange issue where the mobile edition of Opera would no longer be able to access the web. But Opera worked fine when I was Continue reading →

I’ve been struggling to get the grips with the Samsung t809 since I got my T-Mobile plan a few months ago. Today, I finally decided enough was enough and have reverted back to my Sony Ericsson p910i for a while. Continue reading →

Firefox has been getting slower and slower on my machine. Didn’t realise how slow become until I stumbled across Portable Firefox and fired it up. Whoa! Lightning fast! Not surprising, given all the extensions I have installed… Adblock Plus 0.7.1.2 Continue reading →

I’m using Carbonite for backup (which is brilliant), though for people just wanting to backup their digital photos, ProtectMyPhotos seems like a good choice. Like Carbonite, it sits in the system tray quietly backing up photos to a secure server. Continue reading →

Ever needed to grant a restricted user execute access to all stored procedures? It can be a pain to do manually, especially if you have a lot of them. This information also seems to get lost when restoring from a Continue reading →

This is a helpful batch file to make the development cycle a little easier when building COM components for use with web applications. Going through all the steps manually of having to stop IIS, unregister your component, recompile the component, re-register Continue reading →

Found out about this from Fred’s blog. There’s a great new feature on Indeed.com. They’ve made the salary information from millions of job postings searchable, so it’s now easily possible to find out what the difference in salary between different Continue reading →

Just found out about this. Red-Gate have released SQL Refactor Beta. SQL Lay Out reformats your T-SQL scripts. You can select this feature from the top level SQL Refactor menu. There are over 30 options to control this feature, these Continue reading →

These are springing up all over the place, but a contact of mine, Christian Mayaud, recently added a big list on his blog a while ago: everything Web 2.0. This has evolved into a community maintained directory, which should help Continue reading →